“It was just crazy to get to do,” Radcliffe said, recounting a stunt from the sixth movie.

Daniel Radcliffe reveals his most ‘mind-blowing’ stunt from the *Harry Potter *movies

"It was just crazy to get to do," Radcliffe said, recounting a stunt from the sixth movie.

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Daniel Radcliffe in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' (2009). Credit:

Daniel Radcliffe has a lot of magical *Harry Potter* memories to choose from — but some stand out a little more clearly than others.

“There was so much in those films," Radcliffe recently told PEOPLE, when asked to highlight some memories from the film franchise. "It was just crazy to get to do. Honestly, all of the stunt work that I got to do was like mind-blowing, and it [is] still."

As the titular boy wizard, Radcliffe dueled a basilisk, soared across Hogwarts on a broom, and battled his way through an epic wizarding war. He also hopped onto a hippogriff, showed off some fancy wand work, and piloted a flying car. But none of those compared to the memorable stunt sequence that he filmed for *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince *in the actor's estimation.

Michael Gambon and Daniel Radcliffe in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' scene.

"There was one shot where I had to start underwater, and then I was on a wire, and they would pull me out of the water, and there was a burning ring of fire around me that it goes to the top and then up,” the *Harry Potter *alum shared. "It was in a part of the end of that sequence, and bursting out of the water through a ring of fire is something that I have not forgotten."

The moment in question comes during Harry and Dumbledore's (Michael Gambon) search for a horcrux — after the Hogwarts headmaster conjures a tornado of fire to fend off the Inferius (animated corpses) defending the magical object. Harry, who was dragged into water by the magical zombies, pops out and through the fire before he and Dumbledore make their escape.

Despite the fun of them, the stunt work required for the eight-film franchise was not without risk. During a recent visit to* **Hot Ones*, Radcliffe recounted the intensive training required for an underwater scene in *Goblet of Fire* — and shared how a small mistake led to him nearly drowning.

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"There was a time when we were training for it… We were doing like mask-clearing exercises, a very basic thing for learning to dive, and you take a deep breath, and you take the regulator out and then when you put it back in, you gotta keep that breath because you go to blow the air out," he explained.

But at one point, Radcliffe made the mistake of forgetting to take a breath.

"I put it back in and I was like [motioning upward], which is ‘Get me out of here,’ that’s my drowning signal," he shared. The actor ultimately surfaced safely and said that stunt coordinator Greg Powell quipped, "'Well, you won’t make that mistake again!'"

Daniel Radcliffe in New York on Feb. 19.

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"Absolutely right," Radcliffe added.

***Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our ******EW Dispatch newsletter******.******* Radcliffe is currently working a different kind of magic on a stage rather than a screen. The actor has returned to Broadway as the lead of the one-man-show* Every Brilliant Thing,* an interactive rumination on mental health and memory that has earned rave reviews since last week's opening night.

*Every Brilliant Thing *is running for a limited time at the Hudson Theatre for 13 weeks and is set to close on May 24.**

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